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Kyndell vs Kynlee

American parents have registered 6,242 Kynlees since 1880, against 650 Kyndells. Kynlee is still ahead, with 156 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Kyndell against Kynlee, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Kyndell Kynlee

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 38 years in which either name was published, Kynlee for 25 years and Kyndell for 13 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Kyndell Kynlee
Total US births 6506,242
Most in one year 39561
Babies in 2025 5156
Estimated living today 6406,200
Median age today 159
Peak year 20152017
Best rank 3,842nd girls552nd girls
Rank in 2025 14,942nd1,396th
First recorded 19801996
Girls / boys 586 / 646,242 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Kyndells alive today are over 15; half the Kynlees are over 9. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Kyndell and Kynlee.